Nowness Movies

After recently going blind, a young gay man struggles to navigate his new life in the shadows.

A master of sound at work on a fashion film. If you’ve ever wanted to see the chasm between the finished product and the extraordinary lengths taken t...

NOWNESS China has released a new series of films focusing on traditional Chinese culture as defined by a new generation of young people. Young Masters...

Nestled between the sea and the mountains in the South of France, the town of Grasse is known as the birthplace of perfume. Various flowers and plants...

Le Labo Fragrances takes us on an intimate journey to the Australian bush to visit the source of its soulful Sandalwood scents in Western Australia, a...

A 16mm account of the power of wearing a headscarf.

Xiaomei, a factory girl played by Xiao Wen Ju, spent a long night looking for her lover but he never shows up.

Face to Face is an online made-to-order project created in response to the current global crisis. After a virtual consultation with Nakazato, a client...

Hassouni, 17 years old, makes his royal blue car dance on the tarmac. Drifting is his life. He devotes all his time to it. It has become a small celeb...

Selasi is a 'culture man'—a Gambian musician and teacher with a mission to pass down centuries-old traditions, rituals, and rhythms. This short docume...

Sohaila, Zahra and Zeinab train every day. Their dream is to become professional fighters and to show the world that all people are equal. Director Lu...

Varanasi is the Indian city where Hindus go to die. Stretching along the Ganges, Varanasi holds great spiritual significance because Hindu scriptutres...

In this five-minute film, professional bull rider Ezekiel “Blue” Mitchell introduces the audience to his world of bucking bulls and reminisces over ho...

Giuseppe Orlandi is an alpine rescuer who has lived and worked in the shadow of The Grigna, a massif in the province of Lecco, for over fifty years. A...

Thirteen-year-old skateboarder Yumeka Oda was set to represent her country on home soil at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but with this year’s games postpon...

“When you go to dig your fields or make a pot from clay, you are disturbing the balance of things. When you walk, you are moving the air, breathing it...

Director Blake Myers crafts a portrait of the Spanish and Mexican cowboys of California, known as vaqueros, in this new documentary film. Captured thr...

Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles across 46 American states to look behind the veil that keeps America’s poor in t...

At the edge of Shirahama, a coastal tourist town in Japan, an ageing scientist works to unlock the biological secret of immortality held in the life c...